Google TV will bring Google search and Google Chrome to your TV, built in to Sony TV’s, and as well as available to vendors to build into Blu-Ray players, and stand alone boxes. For launch, it will be available for Sony TV’s and Logitech boxes it seems (Google will open source the code in the Summer 2011).
Google TV will bring a ton of content to your site, just like many of the other set top boxes available out there now, the difference though, is the name recognition Google brings.
For example, Google TV will bring Google Chrome to your browser, so you will be able to browse the internet natively on your 50” TV. It will also bring Youtube, Google Listen – which lets you subscribe to audio and video podcasts and stream them right to your TV, and it will bring third party content too, potentially Hulu (it was on a screen capture during the event, nothing official was announced).
This could potentially change how TV is viewed on the… TV. Google will bring a ton of new content to the living room with Google TV that hasn’t previously been there.
I love watching Hulu on my big screen, but lugging my laptop over to it, plugging it in, getting the resolution setup, making sure the audio is working, and all that jazz is just to much work when it comes to just wanting to watch a TV show for 20 minutes.
The one thing that doesn’t excite me about Google TV is that it will not be out now. We are going to have to wait until the fall to just see the first devices, and I fear, like Android was on cellphones, it is going to take even longer for more companies to come out with their products after Google open sources the code next summer.
This device features a lot more features than it’s competitors in the Apple TV and other devices. With Google’s web properties and Chrome browser, I can see this being a hot item for nerds (no offense, I will be getting one too) this winter season.
Google TV will be available this fall from Best Buy stores nationwide.
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